Rosa Luxemburg remains a vital figure for our time because of her insistence that the accumulation of capital depends not only upon the internal temporal dynamics of particular capitalist societies but most of all on capitalism’s spatial penetration and destruction of the non-capitalist world. Her Introduction to Political Economy, originally composed as part of her work as a teacher at the German Social-Democratic Party’s school between 1907 and 1914, remains one of the best studies ever written of the historical development of class society in general, and of capitalism in particular. More

Abstract: Before Rosa Luxemburg dared to criticize them, Marx’ tableaux économique, his reproduction schemes, published for the first time in 1885 in volume II of Capital, edited by Friedrich Engels, nearly escaped the attention of the academic public. Tugan-Baranowsky referred to them, actually made use of them in his theory of crisis in 1899, but before Rosa Luxemburg there was no debate whatsoever with respect to the Marxian reproduction schemes. More